Leprosy in premodern medicine : a malady of the whole body /
While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when j...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2007.
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